Sunday Quote: Open our eyes

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Happiness is available.

Please help yourself.

Thich Nhat Hahn

photograph of glendalough Co Wicklow

At home here

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Into the house where joy lives

Happiness will gladly come

Japanese saying

Adjusting

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The art of life is a constant adjustment to our surroundings

Okakura Kakuzo, 1862 – 1913, Japanese scholar and writer

photo Evelyn Simak

Saying yes

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I rarely let the word “no” escape

from my mouth

because it is plain to my soul

that God has shouted “Yes, Yes, Yes!”

to every luminous moment of existence.

Hafiz

 

Moments

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There is no such thing as a charmed life, not for any of us, no matter where we live or how mindfully we attend to the tasks at hand. But there are charmed moments, all the time, in every life and in every day, if we are only awake enough to experience them when they come and wise enough to appreciate them.

Katrina Kenison, The Gift of an Ordinary Day

The real challenge

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The only choice we have as we mature is how we inhabit our vulnerability,

how we become larger and more courageous and more compassionate

through our intimacy with disappearance. 

David Whyte